The society:
The International Society for Genomic and Evolutionary Microbiology (the
society) is a non-profit, non-political, scientific society committed to the
development of post genomic research, publication and education in the context
of better public health and the environment with a special emphasis on
genomics, metagenomics, evolution and stratification of microbial traits,
functions and systems. The society was registered in Sardinia in
2005 and is run by a board of members comprised of high profile scientists and
academicians. Prof. Leonardo A. Sechi (University of Sassari, Italy)
and Dr. Niyaz Ahmed (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India) are
the co-founders of the society and act in capacity of President and General
Secretary, respectively.

The
journal: The society started publication of its scientific journal 'Gut
Pathogens' (ISSN: 1757-4749) in 2008 in collaboration with Biomed
Central Ltd. and is currently managed and published by
Biomed Central/Springer Ltd. (London) since 2009 with Prof. Sechi and Dr Ahmed
as its Editors in Chief. In addition, Prof. Francis Megraud, Prof. Seyed Hasnain,
Prof. Lothar Wieler and Prof. Barry Marshall serve as senior
editors on the editorial board. Gut Pathogens has since become a fast
publishing, inclusive and prominent international journal which first
recognized the need to provide a publishing venue uniquely tailored to reflect
full breadth of research in biology and medicine of the pathogens, commensals
and functional microbiota of the gut. It is committed to publishing
basic, clinical and interface research on all aspects of the above mentioned
organisms including probiotic bacteria and yeasts and their products, as
well as related ecology, molecular genetics, physiology, and epidemiology. The
journal actively considers timely reports on the novel aspects of genomics,
metagenomics, microbiota profiling and systems biology. Gut Pathogens also
considers, at the discretion of its editors, some of the descriptive studies,
such as those that identify a new genome sequence of a gut pathogen or microbe
or a series of related pathogens (such as those obtained from new hosts,
niches, settings, outbreaks and epidemics) and those obtained from single or
multiple hosts at one or different time points (chronological evolution). Gut
Pathogens would also publish short articles that briefly and concisely
describe the isolation and characterization of new pathogenic species or variants
thereof, or a new strain or type based on sequence analysis or association
studies of host and pathogen genetic repertoires or polymorphisms (functional
molecular infection epidemiology).

The journal is tracked for an Impact Factor, beginning 2009, by Thomson Scientific and its current (2012) Impact Factor is 2.74.

Contact
us: The society's office is located at The Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Viale San Pietro 43b,
07100 Sassari, Italy and can officially be contacted through the secretary:
secretariat.isogem@gmail.com.